Baxter v. Ruddle’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Brandon v. Travelers Insurance (1994), Shanks v. Treadway (2003)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso))
Relationships
Relies on Coloma Community School District v. Berry · Wagner v. Warnasch · Wagner v. Warnasch · Browning v. Placke · Segrest v. Segrest
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an appeal is not timely perfected from the divorce decree, res judicata bars a subsequent collateral attack. Res judi-uata applies even if the divorce decree improperly divided the property. Cook v. Cameron, 733 S.W.2d 137, 140 (Tex.1987). “Errors other than lack of jurisdiction render the judgment merely voidable and must be attacked within the prescribed time limits.” Id. (Citing Browning v. Placke, 698 S.W.2d 362, 363 (Tex.1985)). Accordingly, an apportionment of retirement benefits in a divorce decree, even if improper, is not subject to collateral attack and will be enforced. Also, if the decree is plain and unambiguous, this court is required to give effect to the literal meaning of its language. Adams v. Adams, 214 S.W.2d 856, 857 (Tex.Civ.App.—Waco 1948, writ ref'd n.r.e.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All right, title and interest to thirty-seven and one-half percent (37 1/2%) of JAMES RUDDLE's gross U.S. Army retirement and/or disability benefits and/or V.A. disability benefits (including thirty-seven and one-half percent (37 1/2%) of all increases therein due to the cost of living) if, as and when received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hagen v. Hagen
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.